I'm halfway through it right now on netflix. It is an interesting film, a bit overly sympathetic toward woo-beleivers for my tastes (even while sort of damning of religion and gurus at the same time). But certainly, it shows the power of suggestion and how people are very susceptible to woo. Going to watch the rest later.

An atheist friend on Facebook recommended this film, I thoroughly enjoyed this, it gives you a lot of insight into how the religious mind works. Every person simply projected their own wishes and desires onto Kumare', they feared making these life decisions on their own and wanted reassurance that it would work out.

This is a perfect example of how any religion operates, it allows a person to externalize their decision making process and give someone else credit for when things work out, but it also gives convenient excuses for when they fail, but they can externalize it and say "God is trying to teach me through this", thereby giving them some insulation from blame for their failures.

People were willing to impute supernatural power to a guy because all he did was sit, smile and listen to what they wanted to do without rejecting their ideas.

Gods derive their power from post-hoc rationalizations. -The Inquisition

Using the supernatural to explain events in your life is a failure of the intellect to comprehend the world around you. -The Inquisition